Breastfeeding past 6 months

My son is almost 6 months old and is ebf. At first my goal was six months and it seemed so impossible. Now that we made it, I'm really hoping to continue breastfeeding until he is one. I pump 3 times at work during my 9 hour day, nurse as much as possible when we are together, drink tons of water, eat oatmeal every day and drink mothers milk tea. It is going great so far, just looking for advice and success stories I guess :)

My LO is 13 months and we are still nursing. I have stopped pumping at work but I still pump once in the morning. Until a year I pumped once a day at work.
I have enough frozen milk with what I pump for her to have 8 oz of breastmilk at daycare until about 16 months. Then, I'll just nurse in the mornings and evenings.

My LO is 13 months and we are still nursing. I have stopped pumping at work but I still pump once in the morning. Until a year I pumped once a day at work.
I have enough frozen milk with what I pump for her to have 8 oz of breastmilk at daycare until about 16 months. Then, I'll just nurse in the mornings and evenings.

I set similar goals for myself- I would hope in 3 month increments. It got a little tough towards the end, so I started taking fenugreek, but we ended up making it until my son was 12.5 months. Not sure if the fenugreek really helped, but it was worth a shot, my dwindling supply was giving me lots of anxiety. It's hard for me to explain my love-hate relationship with nursing. While I love the health benefits and the closeness, I also feel like I put SO much added pressure on myself, at an already stressful time, that sometimes it was difficult for me to just relax and actually enjoy my BABY time.

Wow! Good job. I breastfed and pumped until DD was 12 months old, with some formula to supplement from the start, though. It felt impossible for me too, but it just kinda becomes a routine. And even though I wasn't in love with breastfeeding, I cried when I stopped.

Great job! You are awesome! Since you've made it this far with working, it's totally doable for you guys to nurse as long as you both want. We are about to hit 19 months and I definitely never thought we would go this long. Pumping is a PIA for sure, but it's so temporary that I just thought about it like that - just like the pains of pregnancy, it too shall pass :-)

I pumped 4x at work and again before bed until close to 12 months, and then slowly cut down to just 1x at work, and continued that until she was 15 months just to give her a little BM for the next day. Then I stopped pumping entirely and we just nurse when we're together. I love that she still comes to me for comfort - although on days when she's dealing with tons of teething pain (we're doing molars + canines right now, poor thing) it can get old. But she is a baby for such a short time, I don't have a problem with being available to her for a couple of years, you know? It's nice to have something that I know will always calm her down and refocus her when she's tired or cranky or otherwise having a meltdown.

Good job, keep it up! I'm still nursing my nearly 16 month old. I'm down to pumping once a day at work. I was still pumping 3x per day at her first birthday, but slowly weaned myself down to one. I'm hoping to put it away in the next month or so.

We nurse on-demand when I'm not working and it's great. I love it and so does she.